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AN INTRODUCTION
Presented by the ULM Library Reference Department
Session Overview
Cultural Studies
Media Studies
What Is MLA Style, Continued
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Show your audience how your point of view fits into what’s
been done
Quotations/Paraphrasing
ORIGINAL TEXT, AS IS
REWORDED/PARAPHRASE
It’s also very useful when the information is very technical or the
author’s style is very dry and inaccessible – you can make the
info more easy to consume for your audience
You can also combine authors’ ideas that are similar into one
passage through paraphrasing
Mmmm…info smoothie
Paraphrasing: More on Combining Ideas
Let’s say you have two authors who say similar things on a
topic.
Zimbardo writes:
Children are totally insensitive to their parents'
shyness.
Smith writes:
Children are usually unaware when their
parents are shy.
Paraphrasing: More on Combining Ideas
** Most of these examples were taken from the OWL at Purdue’s MLA website.**
Works Cited: Essay/Chapter in a Book
Burns, Robert. "Red, Red Rose." 100 Best-Loved Poems. Ed. Philip
Smith. New York: Dover, 1995. 26. Print.
** All of these examples were taken from the OWL at Purdue’s MLA website.**
Works Cited: Articles
** All of these examples were taken from the OWL at Purdue’s MLA website.**
Works Cited: Websites
The Purdue OWL Family of Sites. The Writing Lab and
OWL at Purdue and Purdue U, 2008. Web. 23 Apr.
2008.
** All of these examples were taken from the OWL at Purdue’s MLA website.**
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